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 kehoe@netcom.com (Thomas David Kehoe) writes:
>Would someone recommend a book about "How To Patent Your 
>Invention"?  There must be several available.

If you write to the Patent office in D.C. and ask them pretty much any
question about patents, they will send a booklet called "General
Information Concerning Patents" which has a lot of good information in
it.

You could also look in back issues of _Midnight Engineering_ magazine;
they've done a couple of case histories on the patent process.  (One
of them determined that it was better _not_ to patent, but instead to
protect your product as a trade secret.)

>I took Patent Law at the University of Chicago Law School, so I 
>know the theory.  I don't know what paperwork you file, how to do 
>a patent search, etc.

So what did they teach you? :-)

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